Lemon Rice/Chitranna easy yet delicious rice dish.his lemon rice is distributed in few temples as prasadam along with curd rice. Rich in Vitamin C and you can add nuts to make it more nutritious. One good thing about this recipe is good solution to leftover rice.
Most of the festival days, if you are busy making other sweets which needs your attention like Obbattu, this is the best rice dish you can prepare.

Do you remember the days, relatives, friends coming and knocking our door without informing? Those are the days where there was no smart phones, internet … Friends and family used to drop in anytime, when they were in town. I Love those days !

It was a customary to prepare the festival meals for the guests. Festival meals menu will be usually one rice dish, payasam and Kosambari and palya along with Rasam and some Majjige HuLi. There were no refrigerator to store the vegetable. My mom used to come up with quick dishes, one of them is this rice dish, Thuppanna as we call this in kannada. This ghee rice is so simple yet so delicious. If you have cooked rice ready, this ghee rice can be done with in no time at all, just 5 minutes is enough. As a kid I used to love this rice and now it is same with my kids too :). Simple aromatic Ghee rice kids friendly recipe.

Zucchini is one of the summer squashes. It is a very low calorie vegetable, good source of dietary fiber. Also zucchini is a very good source of potassium. Here I am presenting healthy, quick fix for a vegan/vegetarian lunch box – tasty, delicious Zucchini Rice.

For lunch box we need some easy rice recipes. Vegetable Rice/bath is always a winner. One of the easiest and flavorful rice bath is using Tomato. This Tomato bath is very delicious and easy to make too. Again there are many ways it can be prepared, I am using vangibath powder to make this yummy Tomato Rice.